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Certified food protection manager classes scheduled
April 18, 2025
The University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will offer three certified food protection manager classes in May and June. The course will cover the material required to pass the National Restaurant Association's ServSafe Manager exam for ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ.
Expert offers tips for gardeners to keep slugs at bay
April 17, 2025
Learn how to keep slugs from enjoying more of your garden than you do during a free statewide webinar. Joey Slowik, an integrated pest management technician with the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, will share best practices for designing your garden to discourage slug incursions. He also will discuss ways to whittle their populations and other management strategies.
Love birds? Learn how to attract them to your backyard
April 16, 2025
Delta Junction residents can attend a free in-person workshop offered by the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service office to learn about birds that frequent their area and how to attract them to local yards. Jeff Mason, an ecologist with the Salcha-Delta Soil & Water Conservation District, has worked with birds throughout his career. He will discuss species found in Delta and highlight the ones residents are likely to see in their yards.
Birch tapping workshops on tap in Anchorage, Palmer
April 14, 2025
Southcentral ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ residents can learn the process of collecting birch sap to make refreshing drinks or boil down into birch syrup in two University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service workshops. The workshops, led by retired Extension educator Meg Burgett, will introduce birch "sugaring" and cover where, when and how to tap birch trees to collect sap.
Control strategies for pretty, but invasive, orange hawkweed
April 01, 2025
Don't be fooled by orange hawkweed, a dainty little orange flower that can take over your pasture, lawn or wildflower garden. In a free statewide webinar, learn how orange hawkweed's biology makes it so invasive and how to use that biology to control it.
Sample Cajun etouffee in Sitka cook-off
March 31, 2025
Join the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service in Sitka for a Cajun cuisine cooking competition: The Sitka Etouffee-Off.
Learn the basics of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ gardening in workshop series
March 28, 2025
Grow your gardening knowledge in this series of 11 weekly webinars covering the basics of growing vegetables in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. Casey Matney, the Kenai-based agriculture and horticulture agent with the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, will lead the free classes.
Making sense of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's changing environment
March 25, 2025
Changes in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's environment are evident all across the state, but the details vary greatly. In a webinar hosted by the Anchorage office of the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ climate specialist Rick Thoman will share a broad overview of observed changes around ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, from snow and ice to heat and wildfire.
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Registration open for three-day pesticide training course
March 24, 2025
A three-day online workshop, available statewide, is scheduled in April for people who wish to become certified pesticide applicators in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. The classes are designed to help participants understand and pass the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Department of Environmental Conservation exam.
Tree felling, chainsaw safety workshop on tap for Sitka
March 21, 2025
Glen Holt, a biomass technician with the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, will lead two free interactive sessions on basic tree cutting and chainsaw maintenance and repair in Sitka. Both sessions are free and in person.